I was earning only ₹14,000 per month when I started intraday trading. I borrowed money from a friend and used savings my mother had kept for household emergencies. I thought ₹1.2 lakh was a small amount compared with the profits people posted online.
After losing it, I could not repay my friend. My mother started taking stitching work from neighbours to help with household expenses while I cleared the debt. Watching her work late at night because of my decisions made ₹1.2 lakh feel like an enormous loss.